Next Step Service Dogs

Analysis

Next Step Service Dogs is a registered charity in United States, based in El Cajon, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Next Step Service Dogs reported income of $166k and spending of $180k, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $421k to $166k (-61%), an average of -21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 123% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Next Step Service Dogs sits at the 44th percentile: it is larger than about 44% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile, and in the 52nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ten Thousand Villages South Bay ($166k), New Leaf-New Life Inc ($166k) and King Solomon Foundation Inc ($166k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $50k against liabilities of $153k, net assets of -$103k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.